LAB EXERCISE 5: Monthly Sales Tax

Goal: In this exercise, you will learn how to:
1. Insert the Main Method (Main Entry Point to the Java Program)
2 Import a Java Class Library
3. Declare Variables
4. Declare Constant Variables
5. Create a Constructor (Special Method)
6. Create Methods
7. Create Objects and Call the Methods

Program Specifications:
A retail company must file a monthly sales tax report listing the total sales for the month, and the amount of state and county sales tax collected. The state sales tax rate is 4% and the county sales tax rate is 2%. The application should calculate and display the following:
a. The amount of county sales tax
b. The amount of state sales tax
c. The total sales tax (county plus state)

In the application’s code, represent the county tax rate (0.02) and the state tax rate (0.04) as constants (Final Variables). Use the constant variables in the calculation formulas to compute for the taxes.

A. Pre-requisites:
1. Create a folder on your desktop Exercise-5

2. Launch Eclipse

3. Setup your Eclipse Workspace to point to the Exercise-4 folder
a. Select File-> Switch Workspace
b. Browse and select your Exercie-5 folder as your Workspace.

B. Requirements to setup Java Project:

1. Create a Java Project and name it as MonthlySalesTax

2. Create the first Class that will have the Main Method

a. Name the Class as MainApp

b. Choose the main method to insert into the class

3. Create the second Class that will have the Constructor and Methods

a. Name the Class as SalesTax

b. Do not select the main method stub

C. Requirements for the SalesTax Class:

1. Insert the import java.util.Scanner class which will allow data to be inputted from the console.

2. Declare and initialize the Constant variables:
final static double stateTax = 0.04
final static double countyTax= 0.02

3. Declare the Class variables- totalSales, taxAmtCounty, taxAmtState and totalSalesTax using a double data type

4. Create the Constructor called SalesTax

a. Declare the scanner input class objects

b. Prompt the user to input the data.

c. Assign the inputted data to the variable

d. Close the scanner input class object
Below is the code you can copy and paste

// declare the scanner object used to input the total sales from the console
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter the Monthly total sales $: ");
totalSales = input.nextDouble();

// close the scanner input object
input.close();

5. Create the Method called calcStateTax()

a. This method should not accept any argument

b. This method will return a double

c. Insert the formula taxAmtState = stateTax * totalSales

d. Insert return taxAmtState

6. Create the Method called calcCountyTax()

a. This method should not accept any argument

b. This method will return a double

c. Insert the formula taxAmtCounty = countyTax * totalSales

d. Insert return taxAmtCounty

7. Create the Method called calcTotalSalesTax()

a. This method should not accept any argument

b. This method will return a double

c. Insert the formula totalSalesTax = taxAmtState + taxAmtCounty

d. Insert return totalSalesTax

D. Requirements for the MainApp Class:

1. Add comments (documentation)– Program Description, Author and Date

2. Create the instance of object called sale from the SalesTax class

3. Declare the countyTax variable as double and assign the return value from the called object method- sales.calcCountyTax()

4. Declare the stateTax variable as double and assign the return value from the called object method- sales.calcStateTax()

5. Declare the totalTax variable as double and assign the return value from the called object method- sales.calcTotalSalesTax()

6. Display the output on the screen console. Below is the code you can copy and paste

// display output on the screen console
System.out.print("County Sales Tax (2%) = ");
System.out.format("$%.2f", countyTax);
System.out.println();

System.out.print("State Sales Tax (4%) = ");
System.out.format("$%.2f", stateTax);
System.out.println();

System.out.print("Total Sales Tax = ");
System.out.format("$%.2f", totalTax);
System.out.println();

E. Test:

1. Save your Java code

2. Compile and run your Java program.

3. Verify there is no syntax, logical or run-time errors.

4. Use the following set of test data to determine if the application is calculating properly:

Total Sales County Tax State Tax Total Tax

9500 $190 $380 $570

5000 $100 $200 $300

15000 $300 $600 $900

F. Submit your exercise in the Canvas Lab Exercise #5 Drop Box.

1. Submit the screen shot of the Eclipse Workbench window showing the Console output screen.
You can use Paint (save as JPG) or Word to paste the screenshot.

2. Zip up and submit the compressed MonthlySalesTax subfolder that is in the Exercise-05 folder.
NOTE: Right click on the subfolder and select Send to “Compress Folder”. The file will have a file extension of .zip.